I agree. I think the default is 16384.
on RHEL 3, Fedora and SuSE it really slows the server down as a normal user and
it takes a few for the server to recover.
I guess a "good" security conscience admin. can possibly prevent such slowdown but
it would be nice for it to come from the vendor or the community first. :)
Thanks,
LDB
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:37:39 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If we set strict ulimits by default we'd have people writing articlesEspecially as the article is quite uninformative about the resource
like "Fedora is teh suck, I can't malloc more than xMB in a single
process" What's fit for one configuration may not be for another.
One size most definitly does not fit all.
that was exhausted. My FD has a ulimit on the number of processes,
and I did not set that, and it has been this way for some time, I think.
The default ulimit on max user processes is so high, it doesn't serve as protection. An admin must find much tighter limits to make a box more secure against fork bomb DoS attacks.
